Angry parents confront Loudoun County School Board after grand jury report

The Loudoun County School Board faced a horde of incensed parents and discussed multiple changes to its policies following the announcement of indictments against the district's former superintendent by a special grand jury.

The Tuesday meeting was the first regular public meeting since a special grand jury released a report last week detailing multiple missteps by district administrators, including then-Superintendent Scott Ziegler, in responding to the sexual assault of a female student by a male student in the girl's bathroom of Stone Bridge High School. The same male student went on to assault another student after he was transferred to Broad Run High School.

During the public comment period, speaker after speaker blasted the board's response to the assaults and the grand jury report.

Over 18 months after he was arrested at the board's meeting on June 22, 2021, following a confrontation with law enforcement, Scott Smith, the father of the first sexual assault victim, returned to address the school board and demanded that division counsel Robert Falconi be fired.